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Query: EC:2.4.2.30 (PARP)
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The effect of inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) on the growth arrest and cell killing induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) was studied in L929 fibroblasts. Depletion of NAD and ATP preceded the cell killing by a 1-h exposure to 10 or 15 mM MNU. 3-Aminobenzamide (ABA), an inhibitor of PARP, spared the depletion of NAD and ATP and prevented the cell killing. With 5 mM MNU, a depletion of NAD was promptly reversed, and there was no loss of ATP and no cell death. Aphidicolin, a DNA polymerase inhibitor, prevented the restoration of NAD, with resulting depletion of ATP and death of the cells, effects that were prevented by ABA. Azide together with 2-deoxyglucose depleted ATP, followed by a loss of NAD and cell death, changes that occurred in the absence of DNA single strand breaks (DNA SSB). ABA prevented the depletion of NAD, but not that of ATP, nor the cell killing. MNU (2.5 mM) inhibited cell growth without effect on the viability of the cells. ABA potentiated the cell growth inhibition. Thus, inhibition of PARP potentiates cell growth inhibition by limiting DNA repair mechanisms. Alternatively, inhibition of the DNA repair response to more extensive DNA damage prevents cell killing. The ATP depletion caused by poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, rather than DNA SSB and the loss of NAD, is the more critical event in the cell killing.
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PMID:Growth inhibition and cell killing by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea: metabolic alterations that accompany poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. 778 36

The influence of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and poly ADP-ribosylation on DNA synthesis supported by human replicative DNA polymerase (DNA pol) alpha, delta, and epsilon has been examined using the replication system containing poly(dA)4500-oligo(dT)12-18 as the template primer. PARP alone inhibited the pol activities in a dose-dependent manner even in the presence of the accessory factors for DNA pol delta, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and activator 1 (Al; RF-C). Both DNA pol alpha and epsilon activities were decreased approximately 10-fold under the poly ADP-ribosylating condition. In contrast, DNA synthesis by DNA pol delta holoenzyme was not affected by poly ADP-ribosylation like prokaryotic DNA pol's. The analysis of poly(dT) formed by DNA pol alpha and epsilon indicated that poly ADP-ribosylation mainly reduced the frequency of replication. These observations suggest a possibility that PARP acts as a negative regulator for the initiation of DNA replication upon cellular DNA damage.
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PMID:Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibits DNA replication by human replicative DNA polymerase alpha, delta and epsilon in vitro. 780 50

Caspase-3 is an ICE-like protease activated during apoptosis induced by different stimuli. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), the first characterized substrate of caspase-3, shares a region of homology with the large subunit of Replication Factor C (RF-C), a five-subunit complex that is part of the processive eukaryotic DNA polymerase holoenzymes. Caspase-3 cleaves PARP at a DEVD-G motif present in the 140 kDa subunit of RF-C (RFC140) and evolutionarily conserved. We show that cleavage of RFC140 during Fas-mediated apoptosis in Jurkat cells and lymphocytes results in generation of multiple fragments. Cleavage is inhibited by the caspase-3-like protease inhibitor Ac-DEVD-CHO but not the caspase-1/ICE-type protease inhibitor Ac-YVAD-CHO. In addition, recombinant caspase-3 cleaves RFC140 in vitro at least at three different sites in the C-terminal half of the protein. Using amino-terminal microsequencing of radioactive fragments, we identified three sites: DEVD723G, DLVD922S and IETD1117A. We did not detect cleavage of small subunits of RF-C of 36, 37, 38 and 40 kDa by recombinant caspase-3 or by apoptotic Jurkat cell lysates. Cleavage of RFC140 during apoptosis inactivates its function in DNA replication and generates truncated forms that further inhibit DNA replication. These results identify RFC140 as a critical target for caspase-3-like proteases and suggest that caspases could mediate cell cycle arrest.
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PMID:The large subunit of replication factor C is a substrate for caspase-3 in vitro and is cleaved by a caspase-3-like protease during Fas-mediated apoptosis. 935 17

The acridine derivative m-AMCA (methyl-N-[4-(9-acridinylamino)-2-methoxyphenyl]carbamate hydrochloride), a carbamate analogue of the topoisomerase II poison amsacrine, is distinguished by its high cytotoxicity against non-cycling tumour cells. We compared the response of cultured Lewis lung carcinoma cells to m-AMCA, amsacrine and the topoisomerase I poison camptothecin. The DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin reversed the cytotoxicity of camptothecin fully, that of amsacrine partially, and that of m-AMCA minimally. The ability of m-AMCA to induce the enzyme poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) was markedly lower than that of camptothecin or amsacrine. Cell cycle responses to m-AMCA and amsacrine were similar, with slowing of progress through S-phase and arrest in G2-phase. These cell cycle changes were also observed when plateau phase cultures were exposed to drug for 1 h, washed free of drug and cultured in fresh medium, with m-AMCA having a more pronounced effect than amsacrine and camptothecin having no effect. We also examined the role of p53 protein in the response using cultured human H460 cells. Both m-AMCA and amsacrine induced p53 protein expression in proliferating but not in non-proliferating H460 cells, and induced p21WAF1 regardless of proliferation status. Both induced G1-phase cell cycle arrest. It is suggested that two cytotoxicity mechanisms can be distinguished using these drugs. The first is specific for S-phase cells, is reversed by aphidicolin and induces PARP activity. The second is cell cycle non-specific, does not induce PARP and is unaffected by aphidicolin. Camptothecin activates only the first, m-AMCA primarily the second and amsacrine activates both.
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PMID:Cellular responses to methyl-N-[4-9-acridinylamino)-2-methoxyphenyl] carbamate hydrochloride, an analogue of amsacrine active against non-proliferating cells. 938 32

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is an element of the DNA damage surveillance network evolved by eukaryotic cells to cope with numerous environmental and endogenous genotoxic agents. PARP has been found to be involved in vivo in both cell proliferation and base excision repair of DNA. In this study the interaction between PARP and the DNA polymerase alpha-primase tetramer has been examined. We provide evidence that in proliferating cells: (i) PARP is physically associated with the catalytic subunit of the DNA polymerase alpha-primase tetramer, an association confirmed by confocal microscopy, demonstrating that both enzymes are co-localized at the nuclear periphery of HeLa cells; (ii) this interaction requires the integrity of the second zinc finger of PARP and is maximal during the S and G2/M phases of the cell cycle; (iii) PARP-deficient cells derived from PARP knock-out mice exhibited reduced DNA polymerase activity, compared with the parental cells, a reduction accentuated following exposure to sublethal doses of methylmethanesulfonate. Altogether, the present results strongly suggest that PARP participates in a DNA damage survey mechanism implying its nick-sensor function as part of the control of replication fork progression when breaks are present in the template.
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PMID:Functional association of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase with DNA polymerase alpha-primase complex: a link between DNA strand break detection and DNA replication. 951 81

We have previously described the isolation and characterization of an intact multiprotein complex for DNA replication, designated the DNA synthesome, from human breast cancer cells and biopsied human breast tumor tissue. The purified DNA synthesome was observed to fully support DNA replication in vitro. We had also proposed a model for the breast cell DNA synthesome, in which DNA polymerases alpha, delta, and epsilon, DNA primase, and replication factor C (RF-C) represent members of the core component, or tightly associated, proteins of the complex. This model was based on the observed fractionation, chromatographic, and sedimentation profiles for these proteins. We report here that poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) and DNA ligase 1 are also members of the breast cell DNA synthesome core component. More importantly, in this report we present the results of coimmunoprecipitation studies that were designed to map the protein-protein interactions between several members of the core component of the DNA synthesome. Consistent with our proposed model for the breast cell DNA synthesome, our data indicate that DNA polymerases alpha and delta, DNA primase, RF-C, as well as proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), tightly associate with each other in the complex, whereas DNA polymerase epsilon, PARP, and several other components were found to interact with the synthesome via a direct contact with only PCNA or DNA polymerase alpha. The association of PARP with the synthesome core suggests that this protein may serve a regulatory function in the complex. Also, the coimmunoprecipitation studies suggest that the three DNA polymerases alpha, delta, and epsilon all participate in the replication of breast cell DNA. To our knowledge this is the first report ever to describe the close physical association of polypeptides constituting the intact human breast cell DNA replication apparatus.
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PMID:Mapping specific protein-protein interactions within the core component of the breast cell DNA synthesome. 956 11

Poly(ADP-ribose) is formed in possibly all multicellular organisms by a familiy of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs). PARP-1, the best understood and until recently the only known member of this family, is a DNA damage signal protein catalyzing its automodification with multiple, variably sized ADP-ribose polymers that may contain up to 200 residues and several branching points. Through these polymers, PARP-1 can interact noncovalently with other proteins and alter their functions. Here we report the discovery of a poly(ADP-ribose)-binding sequence motif in several important DNA damage checkpoint proteins. The 20-amino acid motif contains two conserved regions: (i) a cluster rich in basic amino acids and (ii) a pattern of hydrophobic amino acids interspersed with basic residues. Using a combination of alanine scanning, polymer blot analysis, and photoaffinity labeling, we have identified poly(ADP-ribose)-binding sites in the following proteins: p53, p21(CIP1/WAF1), xeroderma pigmentosum group A complementing protein, MSH6, DNA ligase III, XRCC1, DNA polymerase epsilon, DNA-PK(CS), Ku70, NF-kappaB, inducible nitric-oxide synthase, caspase-activated DNase, and telomerase. The poly(ADP-ribose)-binding motif was found to overlap with five important functional domains responsible for (i) protein-protein interactions, (ii) DNA binding, (iii) nuclear localization, (iv) nuclear export, and (v) protein degradation. Thus, PARPs may target specific signal network proteins via poly(ADP-ribose) and regulate their domain functions.
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PMID:Poly(ADP-ribose) binds to specific domains in DNA damage checkpoint proteins. 1101 34

Normal somatic cells have a defined number of divisions, a limited capacity to proliferative. The telomeres, sequences of TTAGGG repeats at the ends of chromosomes, are considered the direct responsible of the control of the cellular cycle. In fact, the progressive shortening of telomere length at each cellular division, causes the entrance of the cells in a phase of senescence and than apoptosis. The maintenance of the length of telomeres is carried out through: the telomerase, a DNA polymerase reverse transcriptase that extends sequence TTAGGG repeats, or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), between which the adaptive mechanisms, inactivation of TRF1, a protein bound to the telomeres with the functions of inhibiting the telomerase activity and Tankirase-PARP, an enzymatic complex that ADP-ribosylate TRF1 and reduce its binding to DNA. The alteration of the mechanism of maintenance of the telomeres length (Telomerase, TRF1, Tankirase-PARP) may represent a first step toward the cell immortalization and cancerogenesis. Together with the alteration of the control mechanisms of the telomere length, also the cell genic contest should be considered. In fact, the oncogene activation and/or oncosuppressor gene inactivation (p53, Rb, ras) may allow or reduce the cancerogenesis. From this point of view, the telomerase, the TRF1, Tanchirase-PARP and other proteins involved in telomere length could be, in a near future, used as new indicators of prognosis and as markers for new anti-cancer therapies.
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PMID:[The role of telomere-binding proteins in carcinogenesis]. 1125 11

Arsenic trioxide has recently been shown to inhibit growth and induce apoptosis in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), but little is known about the molecular mechanisms mediating these effects. Here we demonstrate that treatment of promonocytic U937 cells with arsenic trioxide leads to G2/M arrest which was associated with a dramatic increase in the levels of cyclin B and cyclin B-dependent kinase and apoptosis. We further show that apoptosis occurs after bcl-2 phosphorylation and caspase-3 activation followed by cleavage of PARP and PLC-gamma1 degradation and DNA fragmentation. The arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis could be blocked by the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide. In addition, pretreatment of U937 cells with the DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin also blocked apoptosis, but did not cause the arrest of cells in the G2/M phase. The findings suggest that arsenic trioxide exerts its growth-inhibitory effects by modulating expression and/or activity of several key G2/M regulatory proteins. Furthermore, arsenic trioxide-mediated G2/M arrest correlates with the onset of apoptosis.
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PMID:Arsenic trioxide induces G2/M growth arrest and apoptosis after caspase-3 activation and bcl-2 phosphorylation in promonocytic U937 cells. 1152 58

We asked whether the constitutive level of DNA strand breaks (SBs) in four human squamous carcinoma cell lines is associated with their radiosensitivity, measured by the clonogenic assay. Because impairment in DNA replication and the action of endogenous deoxyribonucleases are two major sources of DNA strand breaks under normal cell metabolism, we also analyzed DNA polymerase and DNA ligase activities as well as the functional status of Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and nucleolytic degradation of genomic DNA. We showed that the two relatively radioresistant cell lines, UM-SCC-1 and UT-SCC-5, had a statistically significant lower constitutive level of DNA SBs, as measured by DNA precipitation technique, compared with the two relatively radiosensitive cell lines, UM-SCC-14A and UT-SCC-9. We found that cell lines with a higher level of broken DNA tended to have a higher constitutive level of DNA polymerase alpha activity, measured by incorporation of [(3)H]dTTP in DNase I-activated DNA. UM-SCC-1, UT-SCC-5, and UM-SCC-14A did not show any difference in DNA ligase activity when a nicked oligonucleotide was used as substrate. The most radiosensitive cell line, UT-SCC-9, had a significantly lower ligation efficiency compared to the other three cell lines. The functional status of the PARP was the same in the four cell lines. Although none of the four cell lines showed a characteristic apoptotic or necrotic degradation of genomic DNA, when tested with the "plasmid rejoining assay," a significant degradation of the plasmid DNA in UT-SCC-9 was detected. We conclude that the high fraction of DNA SBs for UT-SCC-9, the most radiosensitive cell line, is most likely a consequence of low ligation efficiency combined with a relatively high DNA polymerase alpha activity and the nuclease degradation of DNA.
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PMID:Radiosensitivity of human squamous carcinoma cell lines is associated with amount of spontaneous DNA strand breaks. 1199 85


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